“Someone Greater Than Moses!” Hebrews 3:1-6

Don Boyer’s daughter, pilots a 747 out of O’Hare International Airport for United Airlines. Tells the story of a drunk on board one of her flights…

Charlton Hesston played the role of Moses in the movie “The Ten Commandments”

“For the Law was given through Moses…” John 1:17 “For the Law was given through Moses…”

Are you longing for “the good ole’ days Are you longing for “the good ole’ days?”… Are you being tempted to revert to the thinking that being good enough is good enough? Is it possible you really don’t think God means what He says when He reveals the wages of sin is death?...

Purpose: to better understand the significance behind Christ being greater than Moses

I THE CALL TO CONSIDER CHRIST (v 1) A. To Whom This Call is Given

Actor Brad Pitt, raised a Southern Baptist, recently said he decided to drop Christianity because, “…it seemed to be about ego.” Pitt told Parade magazine “I didn’t understand this idea of a God who says, ‘You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I’m the best, and then I’ll give you eternal happiness…”

I THE CALL TO CONSIDER CHRIST (v 1) A. To Whom This Call is Given B. To Consider Jesus as Apostle and High Priest

Acts 3:22 “Moses said, ‘The Lord God shall raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed in everything He says to you. And it shall be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days.”

Hebrews 7:25 “…He is able to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.”

Hebrews 4:14 “Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession…”

Matthew 10:32-33 “Everyone therefore who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.”

II JESUS IS GREATER IN HIS PERSON (vv 2-4) A. Not an Issue of Faithfulness

John 17:4 “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.”

Hebrews 11:24-25 “By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.”

II JESUS IS GREATER IN HIS PERSON (vv 2-4) A. Not an Issue of Faithfulness B. Jesus is CREATOR of All

Romans 9:21 “Or does the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use, and another for common use?”

Jesus is the Potter and Moses is the clay!

III JESUS IS GREATER IN HIS TASK (vv 5-6) A. Moses Was a Faithful Servant

Luke 24:44 “Now He said to them, ‘These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’”

III JESUS IS GREATER IN HIS TASK (vv 5-6) A. Moses Was a Faithful Servant B. Jesus is the Faithful Son

Matthew 28:18 “And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.’”

III JESUS IS GREATER IN HIS TASK (vv 5-6) A. Moses Was a Faithful Servant B. Jesus is the Faithful Son C. Christians Are the House of God

“freeness and boldness of speech” parasia “freeness and boldness of speech”

Galatians 6:14 “But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”

In the eighties Tim Hansel authored this book and included the following story…

Clarence Jordan was a man of incredible commitment and tenacity Clarence Jordan was a man of incredible commitment and tenacity. He held two PhD’s – one in agriculture and the one in Greek/Hebrew…

Finally, 1954 the Ku Klux Klan decided to get rid of Clarence once and for all…

Summary and Conclusion: My point and the point of this text: faithfulness and steadfastness is what our Lord desires from us. Such will be impossible unless we recognize how and why Christ is greater than Moses!